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Pictures 1918

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The story starts on the night of a fire that destroys the chicken house of 17 year old Asia. The fire also destroys Asia's beloved baby jackrabbit Straw Bit. Afterwards she sees a camara in the window of a store and decides that one way, or another, she'll get that camara. If only she had had it before, she would have had a picture of Straw Bit, and one of the figure she saw running away from the burning building.The book explores Asia's confusion as two boys compete for her affection: Nick, the boy she has known all her life, and the other,Nick's cousin, a stranger from out of town. While she struggles express her feelings with photography,other fires rage across her small town, and she watches as the lifestyle she has known forever threatens to blow away like ashes in the wind.

Fifteen year old Asia is shocked when someone burns down her family's chicken house. Asia knows almost everyone in her small Texas town during World War 1. Who would do something so terrible? Worst of all, Asia's pet rabbit died in the fire, and Asia grieves for him. When she sees a fancy camera in a store window, she longs for it, so she can take pictures of everyone else, before they go away. Asia determines to buy that camera - and to discover the mystery of who set fire to the chicken house.

Pictures, 1918 Book Review

The book I read was called Pictures, 1918. It is a wholesome book written by Jeanette Ingolds. This story's setting takes place in Dust Crossing, Texas during the first World War which occurred during the early 1900s. The main character Asia McKinna is a sixteen year old who endures a fire in her chicken house where her beloved rabbit is killed. Asia wishes that she could have taken a picture of the rabbit to have a visual remembrance of him. She also wants to have a picture of her close friend Nick Grissom who is going off to college at A&M or war. This leads her to wanting an Autographic camera that is displayed at Mr. Riley's camera shop. By babysitting and doing odd jobs for her mother and grandmother, she tries to earn money to buy the camera that she so desperately needs. Between all this Asia is dealing with problems at home. Her family is still trying to figure out who set fire to their chicken house. Asia is also terrified that Nick will get sent to Germany to fight in the war, or go to college. Asia doesn't want him to go because she will miss him and have no one else to talk to but her sister May and annoying brother Homer. Her grandmother's debilitating illness makes her and her family feel preoccupied. Asia's grandmother is suffering from Alzheimer's which wasn't known as a disease back then. Along with this Asia has to deal with Boy Blackwell, Nick's cousin who is furious with the war. I really enjoyed this book because it was so well written and interesting. I think this would be an awesome book for you to read so go and check it out.

Pictures 1918 is a Very good book, Because in the beginning it starts with this young girl Asia who is a nice quite girl who loves her Grandama, and the animals she keeps in her barn. But there is this big fire that starts in her grand fathers barn and no one knows who starts it, but in the shadows Asia sees a dark figure escaping into the dark! talk about suspense unfortunately one of her favorite pets die her jackrabbit(:( . But to make a long story short, she falls in love with this camera and dreams of becoming a photographer and so she ends up working in a camera shop and finally hers dream has come true.

This is a really great book!!! It shows how you don't have to have a camera to have memories, but they also help to see how some people really are. Her grandmother, her neighbor and friend, Nick, and his cousin, Boy, teach her a lot about herself. She learns about different sides of people and a lot about photography.

I think that it was a pretty good book and I would recomand it to anyone who loves reading and photography

It is a wonderful book about a girl who falls inlove with a camera she sees in a drug store window and her close friend, Nick. She relizes that people aren't always how they seem. Help her as she tries to figure out who set fire their barn and the mysteries of a teenager.

I think that it was a pretty good book and I would recomand it to anyone who loves reading and photography